Controlling Windows Media Player 12 through QAxWidget

[mihaig]

I am trying to control WMP12 through ActiveX with the following code:

 QAxWidget *wmp;
 wmp = new QAxWidget(this);
 wmp->setControl("{6BF52A52-394A-11D3-B153-00C04F79FAA6}");
 wmp->setProperty("URL", "C:/Users/qxf3567/Downloads/demoMedia/movie/00522M002M_VHS.MOV");
 qDebug("Version Info: %s", qPrintable(wmp->property("versionInfo").toString()));
 
 QAxObject *subObj = wmp->querySubObject("currentMedia()");
 qDebug("Duration %f", subObj->property("duration").toDouble());

I get true as a result when setting the URL property and the version gets displayed correctly.

However, the duration is always 0. I have double checked that the movie exists on my machine. What could be the problem?

The output is:
Version Info: 12.0.7601.18741
Duration 0.000000

Cheers,
Mihai

[mihaig]

It seems that the following call:
qDebug("State: %s", qPrintable(wmp->property("playState").toString()));

says the state is 9 which according to [1] means transitioning.

How can one check if the player is ready ? Can anybody provide a code example please?

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd564085(v=vs.85).aspx